Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
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Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;"… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
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